365 Objects Of Design

Now, as many of you will know last week was the London Design Festival, now in its 16th year, and, of course, each year is bigger than the previous one. Last year there were some 450,000 visitors from 75 countries and I'm sure there will turn out to have been more this time. velvet fringed

This post follows on naturally from last week's about the three main questions you need to ask before beginning any scheme and how to relate them more specifically to the bathroom.  Having done that, here are some places you might want to look at to source the products once you have worked out what you need. 

Make it this faux palm from Rockett St George.... I'll tell you why in a minute. But first: When I started this blog, way back in 2012 I did a certain amount of research before I began: Google: What is a blog? Google: Where do I get one? Google: How do I upload an image?

Now brace yourselves because this one is going to be controversial. Yes, it's true. There is a gradual move towards bringing back the coloured bathroom suite. But hang on. DON'T PANIC at the back there - it's not going to be about the 1970s which involved a peach corner bath and a shag pile carpet

A couple of weeks ago, for my final trip to Cities Beginning With L That I Have Never Visited Before - the first two being LA and Leeds - I flew to Lisbon with made.com to visit two of their ceramic factories. One of the sites we would visit, they promised, would be the place

Every year it's the same - the sun comes out and the exams start. Actually I know the GCSEs and A Levels are already done, but in this house we are having a year off from those and, true to form, as the sun came out this morning the 14yo headed off to school for

Today I want to talk to you about bedding. Last week on Instagram I wrote a post about it being the three month anniversary of the book. And I alluded to the final paragraph of the book where I said I was increasingly aware of the gap between those of us who have a home

Now it's a moot point if you find this stuff boring or not but it occurred to me the other day that I recommend this online store to every single client I ever meet. And I have shopped for my own house from here on more than one occasion. And I assumed it was one

Now I'll admit I'm an old cynic and when I saw this book title: Happy By Design by Houzz editor Victoria Harrison I was a little sceptical. Surely decorating your house the way you want makes you happy? And there are people to help you with that. And I firmly believe, as do the Danes,

Rattan is currently undergoing something of a revival. It would be wrong to call it a trend because it's more of a classic that fell out of favour and has now cycled its way back round again. It's part of the current mania for all things Seventies which those of who you who remember it

Beverley Hills Hotel red carpet ©madaboutthehouse.com Now I know some of you may feel that the tropical trend has gone on long enough and I might agree with you when it comes to pineapples and flamingoes but then there are the classics. And this is one of them. THE one perhaps. I wanted to write

Sometimes you just see something and you think how fabulous is that? I want it and I must have it. Well I haven't quite added it to cart yet but I think it may be only a matter of time. I've never really managed to buy the right pots for my (mostly fake) plants -

This is a subject I return to again and again.  Most of the ones I see are just awful and it seems you agree with me. It's a question I am asked almost more than any other.  Sometimes there just isn't room for furniture on either side of the bed and, it seems to me, that

So yesterday was all about the virtual inspiration board that is Pinterest and today I have decided to show you this real pegboard for those of us who prefer things in 3D. As you read this I will be heading off to meet a client for some interiors styling. pegboard by nikki kreis "Can we

In honour of the book coming out in the US this week I thought I would run an edited extract from the chapter on How to Use Pinterest. This is something I am so often asked and so I have come up with a way to master it because, in my opinion, Pinterest is your

Dropping by with a quick postcard from Objects of Design for you today. These pretty jugs and trays are hand-painted stainless steel and, at 18cm the jugs would double up brilliantly for vases of flowers or even bunches of herbs sitting on the worktop as well as utensils by the hob or sink. hand painted

Now I don't know about you but I find tableware - as it seems to be called these days - tricky. On the one hand I don't want to spend a fortune because we are a house of clumsy oafs and we break stuff. Also I have a dishwasher. Which means I'm not going to

It took a long time before we got the right garden furniture. It's partly a money thing - when you're doing up a house you need to spend money on the indoor furniture first -  but it was also about finding the right thing. I have always liked the idea of creating an outdoor sitting

Earlier this year I was honoured to host a Q&A session with the pattern designer Neisha Crosland, whose work I have long admired, and whose wallpaper is in my bedroom. The event, which was held as part of Chelsea Design Week, was held to promote Neisha's new range of tiles which are now available via

Well that didn't last did it? I posted about garden furniture yesterday and of course the sun went in. I also arranged to have the kitchen floor painted on the basis that the table and the rest of the furniture could sit in the garden while it was done and it would dry quickly in